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Slumber Poems - Poems about Slumber

Slumber Poems - Examples of all types of poems about slumber to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for slumber.
Premium Member Rainy Days, and the Old Red Barn
...“Allen saw it first Charlie then later Allen chased the black raven Charlie lived his dreams”. Steady rain had been falling for two straight days In dimming, muted light. Striding out from......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, adventure, bird, dream, horror,
Form: Free verse



Old Age
... Older age being old is always ten years ahead: meanwhile I’ve decided to embrace my present age positively I walk, don’t run, affecting a dignified lumbering; if I stumble,I welcome......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, adventure,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lupines Are In The Meadow
... Flowers are the music of the ground, from earth’s lips spoken without sound. ~ Edwin Cerran Lupines are in the meadow, speaking poetry of nature; the breeze directing purple allegret......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, nature,
Form: Sonnet
In the crucible of time, where the iron of human will is melted
...In the crucible of time, where the iron of human will is melted, Lords of armies forge their crowns from flames that build mirages. They invoke the spirit of the earth, but their thoughts leap over......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with
...It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with, A canvas woven from moonbeams and delicate shadows on the water's face. They were seeking a tale in which to slumber, beside a......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Incarnate
...He came in human flesh, So He would see someone like me, He wore the robes of pain, grief and struggles, So He could relate to my emotions. He took the fall, So He could understand why I stumb......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, inspirational, jesus, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lying Awake in Dark of Night
... My internal clock is a bane to me waking me from dreams of paradise thrusting me into life's stark reality not allowing sleep when closing my eyes No matter how many hours of sleep I need ......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, anxiety, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
INSANE POETRY RUNNING AWAY Part 02
...Oh Syrinx, by the lake where you await, blossom anew! Proud of murmurs that speak of goddesses, in a reverent hue. Unleash the waists of shadows, in my tales they live and breathe, As I imbibe t......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, poems,
Form: Free verse
Shadows of the Eternal Night
...I inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a state of "woke" and in slumber, endowed with a divine ......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, art, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Other
In the chamber of the soul, where silences gather
...In the chamber of the soul, where silences gather, I dwell as a hermit in the city of foam, Where the world seems like a faded illusion, I wrap myself in thoughts, like a tree in its closed bark. ......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member codependency
... light … and dark - shadow and bright are diametrically opposed and intricately interdependent we must learn to not fear the dark for it holds the same delight, the same color the same purp......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, analogy, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Term of Birth - Lipogram sonnet
...In the term of birth, fields begin to mend. Tough soil softens in tones of brown umber, Insects wriggle to rejoice winter's end. Spiders spin webs, rising from their slumber. Virgin tre......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads
...Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads, The echo of a twilight stifles discreetly on the plain bound for eternal crossing; Floating, floating over the velvet of d......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In Godspeed
...In Godspeed A caterpillar will hibernate Then she flutters and learns her fate When she wakes up from her slumber. Miles away the waves see the shore To reach the sand, they want nothing mor......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, birth, butterfly, god, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Through thinned forests where the dew of time is carried, the ancient chant of desire roams
...Through thinned forests where the dew of time is carried, the ancient chant of desire roams, And shadows of men, like spirits in festivity, stretch their endless palms of wanting. Sleepwalkers amon......Read the rest...
Categories: slumber, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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